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...Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Selling to The Poor | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo and Omo laundry detergent, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5˘ each. Hon's first stop of the day is Xa Nhon village, where he ties up and makes deliveries to half a dozen small shops. The local farmers may be poor, but they have the same needs and desires as middle-class urbanites, and Hon's business is growing. He sells hundreds of thousands of soap and shampoo packets a month, enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Selling to The Poor | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...ARRESTED. KIM JONG HON, 43, South Korean businessman; following the seizure of freight containers holding 13 highly radioactive devices; on Sakhalin Island, Russia. Kim, president of South Korea's All Nations Co., was detained by Russian police for allegedly attempting to import undeclared items. The devices, according to Russian authorities, contained uranium 238, a metal used in the process of armor plating and the production of ammunition, although some experts say it could possibly be used to make dirty bombs. South Korean officials say the devices were to be used at a construction site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

...feminine to a fault, we had fun living a life where we could laugh heartily at the meaningless character of stereotypes. I would complain to Mike about a tough moment with a TF, and he would flick his wrist in my direction telling me that “Hon-nay, you are going to be fine.” Down in the dining hall Toby and I developed an entire lingo that helped us scope the flawless athletes who sauntered the Mather dining hall in the dinner hours. The genius of Missy Eliot’s ditty...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Room of Our Own | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...multiple organ failure; in Jinan, China. Chang Chang's body will be preserved and put on display in the northwestern province of Gansu. DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French pop artist and creator of the Nanas sculptures; in San Diego. Saint Phalle's other important works include Hon, a 28-m-long, 6-m-high figure of a woman that houses music rooms, an aquarium and a cinema-accessed through the installation's vagina. DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, golfing legend whose career spanned five decades; in Hot Springs, Virginia. With seven major championships and 81 PGA Tour victories, Snead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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